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Reason 557 why the new "WorkChoices" legislation sucks:Under the Howard Government's plan to remake the Australian workplace, the unemployed will no longer be given an option in accepting a job. While right wing nutcases everywhere might think this a positive change, what it actually means in practice is that a person on unemployment benefits will ( Read more... )

tonight was one of those nights when you feel like you have lost touch with everything and so you float unanchored through it all. people speak to you and you answer but your mouth is functioning politely in your place. you make your jokes and gestures, nod carefully as someone pours their heart out, but you are nowhere near any of it. you are in a ( Read more... )

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world": wittgenstein ( Read more... )

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The Improvementby John Ashbery ( Read more... )

This is a poem I wrote when I was thirteen. I remember rushing it out for a school assignment, my head full of Roald Dahl stories. Reading it over again after all this time made me laugh. So I thought I'd include it here to see if it makes you laugh too.


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it hit me today that i don't feel much of anything anymore. there's no intensity of feeling, no real depth of emotion. i'm just killing time in a flat dull apathy. don't take me wrong: it's not that i don't feel anything at all. no, it's different from that. i do have emotions but it's like i can't relate to them. i care but in an abstract way - ( Read more... )

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